On July 19, 2009 I ventured out in the boat on Loon Lake – Inland Lake as I heard about railroad tracks heading into the water at the other end. I suspected that it was the base camp for the sunken boat I found and posted earlier, so out I went. I located the tracks as you will see in the pictures, and I did search the area and although well travelled it seems almost everyone was oblivious to the surrounding history. Although I did not have to to do much in the lines of digging, I did find a view things with the help of a couple of people, The Carlsons and their friends.
On location is the original water tank that fed more than likely the steam donkey which I have not located as of yet, it will be there if the steel rails are, or at least the donkey sled will be, so on the next trip a digging for relics I will go.
Photo’s Courtesy of Rob Tremblay June 20 2009
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- 1st woodstove
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- A bit more cable farther down the beach
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- Another set of rail in the bush
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- Bunch of Cable
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- Cable near the rails
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- More Cable
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- More rail link father up the deserted track
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- Old Bottle but might not be of vintage for area
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- Old Steam Donkey Pipe
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- Rail linker
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- Rail Spike, I actually just stepped on it, no digging
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- Rails into the water
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- Water tank 8 ft by 20 ft still on the sled
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- Wooden Spool in the lake
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- Woodstove on the beach
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- Metal Container unknown for what
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- Small Cable buried in the ground
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- Unknown Item but suspect brake system rack
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- Unknown Item but we suspect part of a brake system
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- A number on the suspected brake system
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- An old boot, probably 80 years old in the dump pile
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- Pile of cans, more than likely the dump location
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- More cans, the area is covered in them undisturbed
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- Cans and more cans
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- The water tank from a differnt angle
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- Valves on both ends of the tank, an odd thing actually
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- The other side of the water tank
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- We located this metal band by the metal detector
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- Ron Bouchard holding both ends of the metal band about 14 feet long
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- We found something odd in he ground and its heavy
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- The odd item in the ground appears to be broken and is about 4 ft long
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- Ron Bouchard again holding the item up, this is one side of it
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- Again, Ron Bouchard holding the item up, and this is the bottom side of it
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- More metal in the area but largely overgrown
A friend of mine and I decided to return to the site of what I suspected was a Donkey Camp on Loon Lake – Inland Lake and we did so on July 25, 2009. I do suspect that this camp was based around 1928 to 1932 at the North end of the lake, and this camp was the main camp as we did find many items of interest’s here. We did not have to venture far to find the old Camp dump, or at least the dump for the metal. Some items we have no idea what they are, some we can only suspect what they are, but the boot was the interesting find.
I took a small video of the Old Water Tank
